Some local bloggers have been asking me for long time if I would do a bloggers-only tour of City Hall. On Saturday I showed about 20 bloggers my home away from home, including some of the unique architectural elements (can you find an upside-down artichoke? a whimsical, mustachioed face? a castle?) and provided a lot [...]
Saturday, May 8, from 8 to 11 am. – Help create a children’s butterfly garden at Hastings Branch Library. Saturday, May 8, from 9 a.m. to noon — Are you interested in how open space in Pasadena is acquired and preserved? Voice your opinion and learn more during a workshop. Saturday, May 8, from 10 [...]
If you haven’t been to Hamilton Park, it’s in the Upper Hastings Ranch area, generally bounded by Cartwright Street to the north, Sierra Madre Boulevard to the south, Pepperhill Road to the east and Crestview Drive to the west. The back side of the park is across the street from PazNaz. If you have been [...]
There have been many requests for tours of Pasadena City Hall by local bloggers over the years, so now’s your chance! Join me for a behind-the-scenes tour of the 1920s-era building, including background about the history and architecture of Pasadena’s most famous landmark. We’ll meet in the courtyard at noon, then go along corridors, into [...]
This is the second in a series of posts about monuments and memorials in public rights of way in Pasadena. The Hogoboom Memorial Bench was designed by Pasadena artist Patricia Ferber using river rock and stone slabs. You’ll find the bench at sweet little San Rafael Park on the west side of the Arroyo Seco [...]
Yesterday I got together with Rachael Worby, music director of the Pasadena POPs. We’ve known each other for years but rarely have much time to share each other’s company, just us. So we enjoyed salads at Ventanas and talked about everything under the sun, including the wonderful Music Under the Stars concert that is the [...]
I gave the mighty Zack Stromberg — my graphic designer in the Public Affairs Office — the assignment of photographing monuments and memorials in public rights of way and on public property throughout Pasadena. For the past month or so he has been snapping away when time and weather permit. The Pasadena Pioneers Bridge Rock [...]
A few weeks ago about 50 Walden School children and parents transformed the upper level of Washington Park during their monthly Big Help Day, which teaches students the value of community service. They were joined by the Friends of Washington Park as well as staff from the Human Services and Recreation Department and the Public [...]
I shot this on Monday at about 11:15 a.m. using a zoom through through the window of my office in the southwest wing on the second floor of City Hall. There was a lull in the rain at that moment. The Robinson Memorial, seen through the leaves of a magnolia tree, is highlighted with a [...]
Today at the first-ever Pasadena Collegiate Field Tournament at the Rose Bowl Stadium, we proved that we’re a college town extraordinaire when teams from Art Center College of Design, Caltech, Fuller Theological Seminary, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Pacific Oaks College and Pasadena City College competed for the top prize in a series [...]
